While on an an Alaska Cruise, my wife and I visited Ketchikan... where I was able to go on a 3 hour fly fishing adventure...

Hooked into a 6 pound Pink Salmon... and only 15 minutes from our cruise ship.

Pinks, fresh from the sea. This is Seth, from The Hookup fly shop.

I vowed to return some day when I could stay and fish for much longer.

July-August, 2006

Our adventure begins in Ketchikan, "Salmon Capitol of the World".

We came for the fish and the sign says it all.

The Anchor Inn. Our B&B home for the week. Only 4 miles south of town.

This is the view looking out our front window to the left.

These planes are waiting for tourists off the cruise ships.

Family Air will fly us out to a remote lake for cutthroat trout fishing. It's raining, but the tour planes are already flying out to see Misty Fiords National Park. Flying out in the rain with a ceiling of 600 feet... how tall are those cruise ships?

Time to rig the rods and head up the river.

Fish live in the most beautiful places. Our guide, Dan, helps Chris with his casting.

Hook up.

Chris poses with his first Alaskan cutthroat trout.

Dan shows us his selection of trout flys. The fish seemed to like them all... especially the Madume-X

Lynn made 7 straight casts with a dry fly and caught 7 trout.

Chris, Dan, and Lynn standing in a trout-filled South East Alaska river.

Lynn fishing... Dan coaching. It's a tough job, but someone has to do it.

Is this a beautiful little cutthroat or what?

Back down the river to the lake... here comes our ride home.

An Alaska fishing boat heads back to port after a long day.

The famous "Creek Street" in down town Ketchican.

Chris and Lynn watching the salmon swim up Creek Street at high tide.

As the salmon swim up Creek Street they attract seals and hords of fisherman.

Seth points out a school of salmon going up the river.

Lynn hooked up to a fiesty pink salmon.

Our guide Seth and Lynn holding his first Alaska Pink Salmon

They let me put the camera down and catch one too. (Stan with a Pink Salmon)

I don't think this is what Chris was fishing for.

This is Salmon Falls Resort, where Chris and I visited when he was 9 years old. Lynn, bear, fish, and Chris.

Chris relaxes after a day of fishing and watches a cruise ship slip by.

Meat Fishing Day. Florence said if you don't bring back halibut, don't come back.
Rick Collins on his boat, the NOOYA.

It was a 2 hour run to the end of Prince of Wales island and the fishing grounds. Lynn with his first King.

Stan with a big black bass. The action was so fast it took Rick almost 2 hours to get all 3 downriggers set.

Chris holds his first Alaska King.

Chris with his first Alaska Halibut. What action. Two drops and 2 hookups. We got our limits in less than an hour.

Back at the harbor, Rick unloads our catch while Chris gets it all on video.

At the processing dock. Rick and Lynn with a good days catch - Silvers, Kings, Pinks, and Halibut.